On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:13 PM, John Garbutt <j...@johngarbutt.com> wrote:
> On 6 March 2014 08:50, zhangyu (AI) <zhangy...@huawei.com> wrote: > > It seems to be an interesting idea. In fact, a China-based public IaaS, > QingCloud, has provided a similar feature > > to their virtual servers. Within 2 hours after a virtual server is > deleted, the server owner can decide whether > > or not to cancel this deletion and re-cycle that "deleted" virtual > server. > > > > People make mistakes, while such a feature helps in urgent cases. Any > idea here? > > Nova has soft_delete and restore for servers. That sounds similar? > > John > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Zhangleiqiang [mailto:zhangleiqi...@huawei.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 2:19 PM > > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > > Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Feature about volume delete > protection > > > > Hi all, > > > > Current openstack provide the delete volume function to the user. > > But it seems there is no any protection for user's delete operation miss. > > > > As we know the data in the volume maybe very important and valuable. > > So it's better to provide a method to the user to avoid the volume > delete miss. > > > > Such as: > > We can provide a safe delete for the volume. > > User can specify how long the volume will be delay deleted(actually > deleted) when he deletes the volume. > > Before the volume is actually deleted, user can cancel the delete > operation and find back the volume. > > After the specified time, the volume will be actually deleted by the > system. > > > > Any thoughts? Welcome any advices. > > > > Best regards to you. > > > > > > ---------- > > zhangleiqiang > > > > Best Regards > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-dev mailing list > > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-dev mailing list > > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > I think a soft-delete for Cinder sounds like a neat idea. You should file a BP that we can target for Juno. Thanks, John
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